Visions from the New California is a collaboration between the Alliance of Artists Communities and six artists’ residency programs in California. Each site offers its own way of serving its artists-in-residence, though all share a common vision that supporting living artists with time and space to create new work is essential to human progress.

Click on the names below to read more about each program:

18th Street Arts Center
Santa Monica

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside

Exporatorium
San Francisco

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito

Kala Art Institute
Berkeley

The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center
Saratoga

Participating Artists’ Residency Sites

18th Street Arts Center Santa Monica 18th Street Arts Center supports emerging and mid-career artists dedicated to issues of community and diversity in contemporary society, and provides an artist-friendly gathering place in a city characterized by its decentralization. [read more]

Djerassi Resident Artists Program Woodside The majestic beauty and remote solitude in a stunning natural landscape serve as an inspirational backdrop for the intense creative experience that defines a Djerassi residency for artists working in the visual arts, new genre/media arts, choreography, music composition, and literature. [read more]

Exploratorium San Francisco The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception, with a mission to create a culture of learning through innovative environments, programs, and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. [read more]

Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito Headlands provides an exceptional environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas, with opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. [read more]

Kala Art Institute Berkeley Kala helps artists sustain their creative efforts over time, providing high-quality facilities to serious artists working in printmaking, photography, book arts, and digital media, in its 8500-sq-ft facility in a former Heinz ketchup factory. [read more]

The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center Saratoga The Lucas Programs has earned international recognition as a model of curatorial practice supporting new and challenging contemporary work by artists of all disciplines. The program includes a complex of 10 state-of-the-art, discipline-specific live/work studios and a commons building designed by six teams of renowned architects and artists. [read more]

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